Teach or Die

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God . . . Is it any wonder that the burden to teach adults to read was first felt and acted upon by the church? Over 80 years ago, Frank Laubach became a literacy pioneer while working as a...

Register for the Gulf Coast Literacy Conference

Guadalupe Quintanilla was told she was mentally retarded in the first grade. She was 13 years old and had just arrived in Brownsville, TX from Mexico. Communication and testing were all conducted in English, and the young girl had no chance of success. Sadly, she...

Champion of Literacy Award Winner

Congratulations to Dr. Lester Meriwether, Literacy Connexus Executive Director. Lester was honored at the Literacy Texas Annual Conference in Austin, Texas on August 7, 2012. Achievements cited included his creation of Books for the Border and Beyond, a project that...

Investing in the Process

Perhaps the word literacy on the receipt caught her eye.  After I explained to the clerk that my work is to help churches help persons with literacy needs, she said, “My husband can’t read.” I offered help. Thus began a two-and-a-half year journey through the Laubach...